There is a tendency for niu glyphs to appear in pairs in the rongorongo texts, and possibly it means they marked beginning and end ('α and ω'):
From niu in Cb13-29 up to and including niu in Ca2-25 there are 64 glyphs:
Adding 70 (March 10) + 61 becomes 131, but my 130 at May 10 assumes this date refers to an ordinary year and not to a leap year. I have assumed Ca1-1 represents March 22 (in an ordinary year), but the last day on side b is March 29 (in a leap year). Thus there appears to be about a week covered by the glyphs both at the end of side b and at the beginning of side a. In Cb13-29 hokohuki is at left, but in Ca2-24 this type of sign is at right. We should remember the fate of Caesar: ... I had decided to look up in what month Caesar was stabbed by Brutus, it just couldn't be July, I thought. My intuition said it should be at the other end of the single-cycle year, at the close of the year. Caesar represents human order and Brutus the 'brutal' chaotic forces which are so strong in spring. I was too lazy to search for Gibbons. Instead a quick look in Wikipedia was immediately rewarding. He was killed in the 'ides of March' (= March 15) ... ... The brutes of spring caused the downfall of both Captain Cook and Julius Caesar. We are close to the key myth of mankind, that which explains the regeneration of sun and of growth. Once at least some people kept the tradition living. I became interested in what really happened at March 15 and reopened Henrikson to find out. Caesar was forewarned of the threat by the prophet Spurinna, who told him that a great threat was coming at Idus Martiae or just before. The day arrived and Caesar was still living, walking to his meeting with the Senate when he happened to encounter Spurinna and told him jokingly that he was still alive. Spurinna calmely answered that the day had yet not ended. The Romans divided their months in two parts and the dividing point was Idus, which in some way was connected with full moon. March 15 was the midpoint of March, which is close to spring equinox ... ... The chaotic tumult in the Curia (where the Senate had their meeting and where they killed Caesar) resulted in his dead body left lying on the floor, while all the Senators panicked and ran out through the doors in different directions. They had planned to throw his body into the river, but the time of plans and order was in the past. Instead, in the afternoon, three of the slaves of Caesar came and fetched his body, and carried him on a stretcher to his home south of Forum - and one arm was hanging down in the corner where the 4th slave should have been ... Possibly there is a connection between the idea of the missing 4th slave of Caesar and the missing left arm in Cb13-23:
Assuming the creator of the C text used the Julian calendar, then he should have marked the position of the 'Ides of March' (March 15), beyond which Ceasar would not be allowed to live (because he was a god): ... At the beginning of 44 B.C. - when Ceasar was still alive - the Senate decided to raise statues of him in all the temples and to sacrifice to him on his birthday in the month Quintilis, which in honour of him was renamed July. He was raised to the status of a god (among the other gods of the state) under the name Jupiter Julius. Marcus Antonius, who this year was consul together with Ceasar, became high priest and responsible for the ceremonies. In the middle of February, at the time of the old feast of Lupercalia, he ran around naked (except for a girdle - like a maro), and whipped the Roman ladies with thongs made from goat-skin, in order to promote ('kick' - Rei), their fertility. Surely there must be some connection with the she-goat Amalthea (Capella) who suckled Zeus. But we cannot repeat all written about her earlier in this investigation. It is enough to remember: ... The Akkadian Dil-gan I-ku, the Messenger of Light, or Dil-gan Babili, the Patron star of Babylon, is thought to have been Capella, known in Assyria an I-ku, the Leader, i.e. of the year; for, according to Sayce, in Akkadian times the commencement of the year was determined by the position of this star in relation to the moon at the vernal equinox ... Instead , to the point: The name of the month February must be based on februa, the name of the whiplashes made from goat-skin ... So, if Caesar had remained a king on earth instead of being forced (he did not like it) into the habits of a god, he would have survived I think ...
In rongorongo times the last Greek lettered star in Aquarius (ω) rose with the Sun in March 15. The first star of Phoenix rose with the Sun 2 days earlier. March 14 can be written 3-14 and March 15 could be the beginning of the next season. In the night of March 16 Denebola could be seen close to the Full Moon. At midnight in March 18 Acubens (α Cancri) culminated. The vai with a single rim in Cb14-5 is exceptionally large and the oval is drawn as if it was the picture of a completed cycle. At the equinoxes the changes are fast and at the solstices they are slow. The Arab's Al Sarfah means 'turn'. Both September and March carry equinoxes, where the 'turns' (changes) are remarkably quick. The cycle exhibited in front in Cb14-5 resembles an ellipse and the short ends at top and bottom could represent the positions of the equinoxes. The extraordinary glyph at the beginning of line Cb4 could hardly be understood as anything else than an illustration of the idea of a turn. Metoro's pu possibly refers to such a 'hole' (ana) through which Sun enters or leaves. Considering mata in front in the following glyph it could then be a hole for entering. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
